“In a monolithic OS, compromising one (kernel-provided) service compromises the whole system, therefore the whole multi-million-SLOC kernel is in every application’s TCB,” the researchers wrote.

Speculation is rampant that Mach, which is a component of the OS X kernel, will be axed from OS X 10.5 (Leopard). If you read Cringely’s treatise on monolithic kernels you’ll get the gist of ...

A big monolithic OS (like Linux and Windows), on the other hand,provides far more services in the protected kernel space. Linux'skernel is over 2 million lines of code; Window's is far ...

It could then sell standalone licenses that give people the OS as it is up to that point, and also sell annual licenses that behave like its Office 365 service does, and likewise, Adobe's Creative ...

No longer is a monolithic OS required. Just the bits and pieces rendered on the fly as demand requires. The company was formed in 2012 by a group of software entrepreneurs and technologists.

As Red Hat prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed ...

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the future of Operating Systems in the new world of computing. In a world that seems to be moving to the cloud and microservices, what will happen to ...

The most common RTOS architectures are real-time executive, monolithic, and microkernel. Real-time Executive Though 50 years old, the real-time executive model still forms the basis of many RTOSs.

As Red Hat Inc. prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really ...

An internal initiative dubbed Andromeda OS seeks to transform Windows 10 into a much more modular platform, componentizing the operating system and allowing for improved adaptability across devices.